Re: Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?

Why don't you rather try Ruby on Rails? I'm sure you'll find it much
cleaner and more fun to work with than PHP.

-Ernst

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:42 PM, John Elliot <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 2012-08-31 00:27, Philo Janus wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure Azure is a collection of WordPress plugins... [just
> kidding]
>
> I don't even know what Azure is, but I'm pretty sure your comment is
> funny. :)
>
> I've been messing around with WordPress plugins lately and it's such a
> mess. What I wanted to do was to create a WordPress plugin that made a
> WordPress website look like a MediaWiki wiki with the Vector skin so
> that you could transition between a wiki and a blog and still have the
> sense that you were on a cohesive website. But the reality was that this
> couldn't easily be done, because WordPress features deliver a certain
> type of HTML5 content that can't easily be customised with MediaWiki
> CSS. I thought it would be fairly straight forward, but making WordPress
> look like MediaWiki Vector is a nightmare and I had the good sense to
> abandon the project very quickly.
>
> I've spent the last few years refashioning myself as a PHP developer
> having come from a WinForms/ASP.NET background and it's been kind of
> like career suicide. The way I looked at it was lots of successful
> websites have been implemented in PHP, so how bad could it be? The
> answer is: it's bad! But in a comfy kind of a way. Kind of like VB6 was
> comfy, even if the big kids used to tease you about it, you could get
> stuff done. The problem is that the code is a mess. Try creating a
> WordPress plugin and you'll see how much the technology sucks.
>
> The reason it has been career suicide is that if I go for a PHP job
> people say, well, you have hardly any experience in PHP. If I got for a
> .NET job they say, you haven't worked with .NET for four years and
> you're out of date. It's a non-trivial thing making drastic changes to
> your skill set in the middle of your career. I kind of look at it and
> go, yeah, but it's all SQL and HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but employers don't
> think like that. I'm still planning to persevere with the PHP thing.
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Ernst Kuschke
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